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At least 30 dead as school building collapses in Haiti

At least 30 people, including many children, died when a
school building collapsed Friday in the Petion Ville suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, while more than 100 were injured, Haitian Radio Metropole reported.

The Evangelical Promise school in the area of Nerette
collapsed at around 10 am (1500 GMT) Friday, with some 700 students inside, the
report said. The three-storey school educated students from kindergarten to
middle school.

The children were in their classrooms at the time of the
collapse, Michaele Gedeon, president of Haiti's Red Cross told CNN. "The whole school collapsed on the
kids," she said.

The cause of the collapse was not known.

"We are having difficulty removing students from the
rubble because we don't have heavy duty search-and-rescue equipment," said
Alex Claudon, also of the Red Cross. He said the number of casualties could be
very high.

Gedeon wasn't at the site, but said she could hear rescuers
calming down injured students as she coordinated emergency efforts over the
phone.

"On the phone you
can hear so many children crying ... and saying, 'This one is dead, that one is
dead'," Gedeon told CNN.